Notebooking – Preparation Education

Story of the World vol. 2 and History Through the Ages

January 2, 2018May 12, 2022prayingmother

I have already shared that we love Story of the World history books and History Through the Ages timelines by Homeschool in the Woods. (See post about Story of the World, vol. 1) I am working my way through compiling lists of what timeline pieces correspond with which chapters from Story of the World.

Here is the list for volume 2. If you have suggestions to update, please let me know.

Note: The ones that are in italics are not in the History Through the Ages set. I have managed to find some of these online, and had to skip some. MOH 3 Additional Figures Set is an add-on set that goes with Mystery of History, volume 3 that can be purchased for $2.95 and downloaded from Homeschool in the Woods. (Scroll to almost the bottom of the page, if you follow my link.) World Geography Timeline Figures are timeline figures by Amy Pak that are sold by Heart of Dakota.

HTTA Timeline Figures for SOTW Vol. 2

Introduction

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Chapter 1

Fall of Roman Empire
Diocletian
Middle Ages

Chapter 2

Epic of Beowulf

Chapter 3

Dark Ages
Augustine

Chapter 4

Justinian I
Theodora
Byzantine Empire
East-West Schism
Nicholas

Chapter 5

Golden Age of India
Ajanta Caves
Skandagupta
Chandragupta I

Chapter 6

Mohammed
The Hegira

Chapter 7

Abu Bakr

Chapter 8

Sui Dynasty
T’ang Dynasty
Grand Canal

Chapter 9

Yamato Dynasty

Chapter 10

The Maori
Aboriginal Australians

Chapter 11

Clovis

Chapter 12

Arab-Muslim Sweep

Chapter 13

Charles Martel
Charlemagne
Pope Leo III (not named, but is the pope mentioned in the chapter)

Chapter 14

Viking Invasions
Erik the Red
Leif Erikson

Chapter 15

Alfred the Great
Sweyn Forkbeard
Battle of Hastings
Edward I (Edward the Confessor)
Harold I
William I

Chapter 16

Feudal System
King Arthur
Medieval Castles
Old English

Chapter 17

Samurai Warriors
Knights

Chapter 18

The Crusades
Saladin
El Cid
Peter the Hermit
Urban II (not mentioned by name, but was a Pope that ordered crusades)
Pope Innocent III (not mentioned by name, but was a Pope that ordered crusades)

Chapter 19

Richard I
Optional: Eleanor of Aquitaine (Queen Mother of Richard, not mentioned)
Robin Hood
Magna Carta
King John (Lackland)

Chapter 20

Destruction of Jerusalem
Optional: Masada (not mentioned)
Optional: Bar Kokhba (not mentioned)
Jews of the Renaissance & Reformation (MOH 3 Additional Figures Set)
Yohanan ben Zakkai
Diaspora

Chapter 21

Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Song Dynasty (not mentioned, but overthrown by Kublai Khan)
Mongol Invasions

Chapter 22

Marco Polo
Silk Road
Ming Dynasty
Great Wall
Forbidden City

Chapter 23

Vladimir of Kiev
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Great (MOH 3 Additional Figures Set)
Rurik

Chapter 24

Fall of Constantinople
Suleiman I (MOH 3 Additional Figures Set)
Ottoman Empire
Mehmed the Conqueror

Chapter 25

Black Death

Chapter 26

Hundred Years War
Joan of Arc
Henry V of England
Charles VI of France
Battle of Agincourt (1415)
Henry VII of England
Dauphin/Charles V of France

Chapter 27

Wars of the Roses
Richard III
Henry VI
Princes in the Tower

Chapter 28

Ferdinand V and Isabella I
Henry the Navigator

Chapter 29

Empires of West Africa (MOH 3 Additional Figures Set)
Mansa Musa
Leo Africanus

Chapter 30

Babar
Akbar
Moghul Empire

Chapter 31

Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Ferdinand Magellan

Chapter 32

Maya Civilization
Tenochtitlan
Inca Civilization
Aztec Empire

Chapter 33

Montezuma II
Hernando Cortez

Chapter 34

Martin Luther
95 Theses
Henry VII
Henry VII’s wives

Chapter 35

European Renaissance
Artists of Northern Renaissance (MOH 3 Additional Figures Set)
Gutenberg

Chapter 36

Council of Trent
Reformation and Counter Reformation
Philip Melanchthon

Chapter 37

Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei

Chapter 38

Mary I (Tudor)
Elizabeth I

Chapter 39

William Shakespeare
Macbeth

Chapter 40

Walter Raleigh
Virginia Dare
Roanoke/The Lost Colony
John White

Chapter 41

John Cabot
Jacques Cartier

Chapter 42

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado,
Philip II
Sir Francis Drake
Spanish Armada
Lord Charles Howard

I am not receiving any remuneration from either Story of the World or Homeschool in the Woods for this post or any of the links in it.

Albert Einstein

February 3, 2015February 3, 2015prayingmother

Learning about Albert Einstein is one of the assignments in the Noeo Physics 1 curriculum. The book that comes with the curriculum is Did it Take Creativity to Find Relativity, Albert Einstein? Unfortunately, we found the book to be too dry, so decided to find a different one. Since we wanted to start reading right that minute, we went for a kindle book. We chose the book Who Was Albert Einstein? This book had 106 reviews with the average being 5 stars, so I figured it was a safe bet. Indeed it was. For a short fun read on Albert Einstein, this book was a great pick. Perhaps it was a bit more history and less science than the previous book, but I really don’t think that my third grader needs to understand relativity or E=mc² too thoroughly, and he definitely enjoyed the history. He was most intrigued that Einstein’s theory of mass to energy conversion played a pivotal roll in the atomic bomb creation, and that Einstein petitioned Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb, but was an avowed pacifist.

Ace did a notebook page (front and back) on Einstein.

Everything was narrated by Ace and I wrote it out for him. The top picture is just his overall report on what we read. The inside of the compass mini book is about how a compass that was gifted to Albert when he was young sparked his love of science. The orange mini book is about the atomic bomb. The cover is a drawing of a mushroom cloud by Ace.

Sources for the notebook page:

Albert Einstein page from Hold That Thought Notebook Pages (out of print)
Compass and Lightbulb mini books from Confessions of a Homeschooler
Atom Bomb mini book by Ace

George Washington Carver

October 28, 2014November 3, 2014prayingmother

Ace has fallen in love with audiobooks. Can’t blame him, I rather love them myself. It allows for him to “read” books that are considerably beyond his reading level, without my having to sit down. Of course, I still take time to sit and read, but the boy has been listening to audiobooks for hours a day, and I can’t read to him for several hours a day, unfortunately.

Last week he listened to the book Man’s Slave Becomes God’s Scientist: George Washington Carver. He loved it! George Washington Carver is just every boy’s best friend. After all, he escaped kidnapping; he got beat up and lived to tell about it; he was smarter than his teachers; and he loved dirt and bugs and all those boy kinds of things. That all aside, he makes for a worthy hero, so I love for my boys to admire worthy heroes. And he loved school, which is not a bad thing to encourage boys to love. (I said “boys” because actually others of us enjoyed the book, because we couldn’t escape it as it was being played over speakers loud enough for all of us to not be able to ignore, but fortunately we were all hooked.)

This was a total rabbit trail, and has nothing to do with any of our curriculum, but while we were on a role, we also checked out a book about George Washington Carver for younger kids: A Weed Is a Flower : The Life of George Washington Carver by Aliki and read that. That is a super well illustrated little book that I had read to my older kids once upon a time, and just had to read it again.

Rabbit trail or no, Ace did a notebook page about George Washington Carver and if you ask him to tell you stories, you’d better sit down because it’s going to take awhile. Here are a few of pictures.

Caption for bottom pictures: Left and center bottom pictures are the inside of top mini book in top right photo. Right bottom picture is the inside of the “An Amazing Scientist” mini book.

List of resources:
Hold That Thought World & US History Notebook Pages (Out of Print) (George Washington Carver Notebook Page)
U.S. History Little Books: Famous People — George Washington Carver (Free) (George Washington Carver 1864-1943 Mini Book)
Literacy-Building Booklets: Famous Americans (An Amazing Scientist Mini Book)
Man’s Slave Becomes God’s Scientist: George Washington Carver (Audio Book) (Sad to see that the price has gone up.)
A Weed Is a Flower : The Life of George Washington Carver (Well illustrated children’s book about Carver.)

Geography Notebook

April 9, 2012prayingmother

Sometime ago, we started making a Geography Notebook. We started out by learning a few of the basic geography terms and locations–such as, North, South, Tropic of Cancer, hemisphere, etc. The main book we used was one that we checked out from the library called, Geography From A to Z: A Picture Glossary. This is a fun and easy book to learn basic geography terms from, partly because the illustrations are so nice. We also checked out and read the book, Maps and Globes by Jack Knowlton. This also has nice illustrations and simple text to help us understand how to read maps and globes. We enjoyed this book too, but the first one was more of a favorite.

All three of my older children joined in this endeavor, even the preschooler. Here are some pictures of the covers. Each one has at least one picture of Earth and then they each have a compass rose fold-up book. I can’t remember the name of this fold for my lapbook buddies, sorry. We just folded each of the four corners into the middle.

When you open up the compass books there is a map inside. Here is a picture of JD Boy’s hand-draw map of our culdesac.

We also have some pages on Latitude and Longitude. All of the Latitude pages are available at my Homeschool Launch profile. Here is the link to these Latitude Notebook Pages.

I made this layered book of the important latitude divisions with G’tums, my preschooler. Each division is it’s own layer. This one is also available at Homeschool Launch. Here is the link.

Zippy designed her own Longitude/Prime Meridian page. But I designed JD Boy’s and it also can be downloaded from my Homeschool Launch profile. Here is the link to that file.

We also worked through this glossary of geography terms. This page is from the Homeschool in the Woods World Maps CD.

Now that we have all these terms learned, we are working on learning about places. We are having even more fun with this part. We have been reading some interesting stories and biographies about different countries, but I will save that for another post…or several.

Three Seattle Museums

November 21, 2011November 10, 2011prayingmother

This is an old post, that I never got finished, until now.

You know I’m a homeschool mom, because I turn everything into a school project. I wonder sometimes if my kids get weary of my turning everything into learning opportunities, but they’re stuck with me and my ways. (Sorry guys!)
We’ve had company off and on over the last few months and we wanted to do some fun things with them, so we headed out to some local museums. The first adventure was to visit the Future of Flight museum. I didn’t get to go, because they don’t allow preschool aged children, (not that I’m a preschooler, but I have one…) so I stayed home and cooked up a big meal for everybody. Which, I thorougly enjoyed, and so did they, by the way. My older two kids along with their cousins, uncles, grandparents and dad went there though for a tour. They came back all talking at once. They had seen a 787. They had seen the largest building in the world by volume. They had seen the assembly line for the 747. They had all kinds of things to tell me. Unfortunately, they were not allowed to take pictures, but they did their best to describe everything they had seen. Then I did my homeschool mom act and made an assignment to each of my kids to write a report on their trip. They enjoyed the project enough, that they not only decided to write, but to design a page for their report. I gave them some help. They spent quite a bit of time searching online for pictures for their reports.

The next trip we went on was to the Museum of Flight. Sound like we have a theme going? It’s not because we have been studying about airplanes or anything it’s just that these are what struck our fancy, but being that I’m a homeschool mom, I’m wondering if it’s time to do a lapbook on airplanes or the Wright Brothers or something! I don’t know though. Sometimes, I realize that I can’t make a full blown unit out of everything we do. There’s just not enough time. However, since my previous writing assignment turned out so well, I definitely have a theme going on that, and assigned another writing assignment. We were allowed to take pictures on this trip, and being that JD Boy has a new camera, he had his along, so he took lots of pictures and was able to use that for his page.

The notebook pages.

Some fun pictures of the day. 1. Moon Rover replica, 2. Blue Angels, 3. WWII plane, 4. Future Astronaught

Our third museum visit was to the Pacific Science Center. We actually have made several trips to the Science Center and I have to confess that I haven’t required writing assignments every single time. I should have, because there is so much to see there, that each time, they could write about something different. But you know, even homeschool moms, slack up once in awhile. This time even my preschooler decided that he wanted to make a report. Our pass still hasn’t expired, so I’m hoping to still get in one more set of reports out of them on the Science Center in the next few weeks. They each chose their own pictures again. JD Boy took all of his pictures. The other two, hunted down pictures on Flickr that were Creative Commons license.

The notebook pages.

Some shots from the Butterfly House at the science center. Links to the full size pictures. 1. Butterfly, 2. Butterfly, 3. Butterfly, 4. Butterfly

A very important shot–one of the Space Needle from the Pacific Science Center. All photos from both museums were taken by my 8 yo son, JD Boy.

So there you have it — three museums and three reports and I was able to count three days, that would have otherwise been discounted, as school days! After all, I have written reports to prove it now.

If you are visiting the Seattle area and are planning visits to any of these museums and would like copies of these notebook pages, feel free to email and ask.